Settings/Media/Music
This category contains the settings for how information for music is collected, stored, shown and navigated.
All
Track naming template
Settings level: | Basic |
Description: | Controls the way that the names of songs are displayed in the UI. In order to function properly, ID3 tags need to be enabled. |
Settings level: | Advanced |
Description: | When this option is on, Kodi will search for thumbs on remote shares (which as of the time of writing includes DVD and CD media as well, due to the long seek/read times). This can often slow down listing of network folders quite dramatically (particularly if there are many items that have no thumbs), hence the option to turn it off. |
Files
Enable tag reading
Settings level: | Standard |
Description: | Read the tag information from song files. For large directories this can increase read time, especially over a network. |
- Enabling tag reading will read the tag-information written in every song. This will slow down read time of large directories (particularly over a network), but will give, if properly named, a better description of your music files. If you wish to have the tag information without having to wait for them to load each time, you can “Scan” your songs from My Music:Songs. This will read the tags of all songs in this directory (and it's subdirectories) and add the information to the database (stored in the “albums” folder). Next time you go into that directory, Kodi will first look for the tag information in the database, which should speed up the directory loading.
Library
Show "All items" entry
Settings level: | Advanced |
Description: | Show "All items" entry in directory, e. g. "All albums" or "All seasons". |
Show song and album artists
Settings level: | Basic |
Description: | When enabled, both song adn album artists are shown. When disabled, only album artists are shown and artists that appear only on individual song from an album are excluded. |
Prefer online information =
Settings level: | Standard |
Description: | Whith this enabled, any information that is downloaded for albums and artists will override anything you have set in your song tags, such as genres, year, song artist etc. useful if you have MusicBrainz identifiers in your song tags. |
Fetch additional information during updates
Settings level: | Advanced |
Description: | Automatically fetches album and artist information via scrapers during scan. |
Default service for album information
Settings level: | Standard |
Description: | Selects the default album information source, see the add-ons manager for options. |
Default service for artist information
Settings level: | Standard |
Description: | Selects the default artist information source. |